N00406:102
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession…
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended, against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pennsylvania [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended, against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pensilvania [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Richard Pierce, 1690
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His Inference then, That Hence a man cannot be known to be a true Minister without […] discovery, is vain: he can by our Doctrine. which is according to Scripture, tho not by him which is altogether unscriptural; our people therefore are left in no perplexity about it.
His Inference then, That Hence a man cannot be known to be a true Minister without 〈…〉 discovery, is vain: he can by our Doctrine. which is according to Scripture, tho not by him which is altogether unscriptural; our people therefore are left in no perplexity about it.
Sect. 2. His Assertion, That No man can be a true Christian without Divine Inspiration, […] hither-to unproved by him, and disproved by us: and were it true (as it is otherwise) his Consequence, viz. That without the same none can be a Gospel Minister, is inconsequent: nor is it any absurdity to say, That a man may be a true Minister, and yet not a true Christian, i. e. he may be orderly called to the Office of the Ministry, though yet he may not be savingly brought home to God: There is therefore an Ambiguity in the word [True] which may be applied either to the Professors […] to the Profession.
Sect. 2. His Assertion, That No man can be a true Christian without Divine Inspiration, 〈…〉 hither-to unproved by him, and disproved by us: and were it true (as it is otherwise) his Consequence, viz. That without the same none can be a Gospel Minister, is inconsequent: nor is it any absurdity to say, That a man may be a true Minister, and yet not a true Christian, i. e. he may be orderly called to the Office of the Ministry, though yet he may not be savingly brought home to God: There is therefore an Ambiguity in the word [True] which may be applied either to the Professors 〈…〉 to the Profession.